Cohort service

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that where executed by the one or processors cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
• in an online connection system detecting a request for recommendations with respect to a first member represented by a first member profile, the request received from a client application executing at a client system associated with the first member;
• from the client application, receiving information indicating a viewing context associated with the detected request, the viewing context indicating a first attribute value of a member with whom the first member has recently established a connection via the online connection system;
• at a server system, fetching a first plurality of candidate member profiles for providing to the first member as connection recommendations, each candidate member profile in the first plurality of candidate member profiles having a member profile indicating the first attribute value;
• ranking the first plurality of candidate entities member profiles using a machine learning model;
• selecting a first cohort of member profiles from the first plurality of candidate member profiles based on the ranking;
• and
• causing display of one or more references to one or more member profiles in the first cohort of member profiles on a display device associated with the first member.

A machine-readable non-transitory storage medium having instruction data executable by a machine to cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

• in an online connection system, detecting a request for recommendations with respect to a first member represented by a first member profile, the request received from a client application executing at a client system associated with the first member;
• from the client application, receiving information indicating a viewing context associated with the detected request, the viewing context indicating a first attribute value of a member with whom the first member has recently established a connection via the online connection system;
• at a server system, fetching a first plurality of candidate member profiles for providing to the first member as connection recommendations, each candidate member profile in the first plurality of candidate member profiles having a member profile indicating the first attribute value;
• ranking the first plurality of candidate member profiles using a machine learning model;
• selecting a first cohort of member profiles from the first plurality of candidate member profiles based on the ranking;
• and
• causing display of one or more references to one or more member profiles in the first cohort of member profiles on a display device associated with the first member.